Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kurt Cobb The campaign of 2010 may produce members of Congress and of the Senate who are nothing but conduits for corporate agendas and whose loyalties can be traced directly to corporate-funded campaign groups–groups made up of anonymous donors who seek nothing less than direct control of the government of the United States for their personal gain.
– Saudis Need Shale to Solve Gas Dilemma
– Trillions necessary to maintain Russia’s oil production
– Musings: Curtain Being Pulled Back from The Oz of Gas Shales
– The use of quantitative indicators for analyzing energy security
– Janaia Donaldson of Peak Moment TV (what she’s learned)
– Embrace the Cooperative Movement – video interview
– Climate Change, Like Slavery, Needs a True Cultural Shift to Stop It
– A climate, oil and economic crisis looms: Will we avoid or adjust? (Kathy McMahon)
– Surging price of oil forces US military to seek alternative energy sources
– Navajos Hope to Shift From Coal to Wind and Sun
– Our aging water systems are long past due for a major overhaul
“Large conventional oil production is increasingly no longer part of the future. We must expect to get along without what has been our critical energy source in expanding the world’s economy for more than half a century. But acceptance [of the idea of peak oil] by knowledgeable people is not enough.
“Our willingness, let alone our ability, to do anything serious about the impending inability to increase oil output is still a long way off. The political order responds to what the public believes today, not to what it may come to believe tomorrow.”
Dr. Schlesinger has served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1971-73), Secretary of Defense (1973-75), Director of the CIA and was the first Secretary of Energy (1977-79).
Keynote address to the recent ASPO-USA conference in Washington D.C. (transcript and video) .
Mainstream health policy analysis is in an intellectual cul-de-sac due to its paradigmatic premise that the economy will continue to expand and thereby allow the government to provide more and more funding for health
When I first developed this story, as part of a presentation to Culture Northwest a few years ago, I went on to make a comparison between the 20th century corporation, which still believes that it can control its environment, and the coming organisation, which understands that it needs to tread lightly on the world, to test its external environment for changes, and to respond by adapting accordingly.
Big oil was smiling this week as Q3 profits rose on the back of higher oil prices. Prices are 12% higher than last year, and according to JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are likely to go higher, even above $100/barrel, by next year. Such a price rise may provide a test of OPEC’s ability to raise production…
We will see if a safe and prosperous Taiwan emerges or will it be melt down; The China Syndrome – (although if you are in China then perhaps it is the USA syndrome?)
-World Bank to lead economic push on nature protection
-A Planet In Square Brackets
-Japan offers hope to biodiversity summit with $2bn conservation fund
By understanding that money is simply credit, we unleash it as a powerful tool for our communities. The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic waves of depression like the one we’re battling now, may be due to a flawed perception not just of the roles of banking and credit but of the nature of money itself.
-German Industry Feels Rare-Earth Metals Squeeze
-China pledges not to use rare earth minerals as weapon
-Revealed: how deep-sea mining could destroy the ‘cradle of life on earth’
-China rare earth quota prices up as exporters jostle
-Rare earths row: some home truths
-News special: Vedanta victory masks threats to indigenous people
